Sony World Photography Awards 2014: shortlisted entries

Photographer Name: Michael K Nichols
Series Name: The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion
Series Description: The lion (Panthera leo) is synonymous with wild Africa.
Few people realize that illegal killing, relentless habitat loss, and
habitat fragmentation has this species in a crisis that must be addressed by
the world, not just Africa. Nearly a century ago, there were as many as two
hundred thousand lions in Africa. Today, the most recent surveys estimate
that there are fewer than thirty thousand wild lions.